THULANI DAVIS TO SPEAK AT ICP

In conjunction with For All the World To See, the International Center of Photography and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC are co-hosting this MUST see event.

Blackface Imagery and Its Answers: Stereotyping from the Early Civil Rights Era to the Obama Era

June 28, Monday, 7:00 pm
$5 non-members, free (members & students)

For All the World to See

This Friday, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights opens at the International Center of Photography.

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. This exhibition of 230 photographs, objects and clips from television and film looks at the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media.

This is the first major project I have been involved in since opening my own shop last year.  I created the educational materials that will accompany the online exhibition.

Maurice Berger, the exhibition’s curator, has published a companion book.

The show opens at International Center of Photography in New York (21 May to 12 September 2010) and will travel to  the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (tentatively, 15 June to 30 October 2011); and the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC (September 2012 to January 2013). Other venues will be announced.